Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.9
Points
11.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
71054
Points per Word
0.000155
Page Count
265
Points per Page
0.041509
Description
Louisiana in the late 1960s where segregation and prejudice still thrive, two high-school football players, one white, one black, become friends but find that some changes are too difficult to accept. The plot contains violence and racial slurs.